Synodic month length 29.39 days

Length of current 213 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 19 minutes. It is 1 hour and 51 minutes longer than next lunation 214 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 25 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 2 hours and 44 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 6 April 2017 Thursday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠321.4°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠321.4°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠340.4°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

6 days after point of perigee on 30 March 2017 at 12:39 in ♉ Taurus. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 8 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 15 April 2017 at 10:05 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Distance to Moon 377 993 km

Moon before ascending node

11 days after its descending node on 25 March 2017 at 15:41 in ♒ Aquarius, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 7 April 2017 at 09:14 in ♍ Virgo.

Draconic month

Moon after northern standstill

3 days after previous North standstill on 3 April 2017 at 06:12 in ♋ Cancer, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.984°. Next 11 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-19.095° in the next southern standstill on 17 April 2017 at 13:12 in ♑ Capricorn.